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    Add Support to CSNDSYX, for stronger Hashing Methods like SHA-512 for CKM-RAKW to get RFC5649 output.

    Add Support to CSNDSYX, for stronger Hashing Methods like SHA-512 for CKM-RAKW to get RFC5649 output. CKM_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP is a two step process; AES Ephemeral Key gets wrapped with Public key (RSA-OAEP+SHA512) AES Ephemeral Key wraps the AES ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Under review

    OSC Support for optical fiber 10G/25G

    The only available speed for OSC on optical fiber is 1G, this is available on z17 with the OSA Express7S 1.2 GbE card. 1G optical fiber is not part of modern network infrastructure, therefore an option to run OSC on modern infrastructure with at l...
    2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 0 Under review

    Add a radio button to select the correct Capacity record on the Temporary Model Conversion page

    Now that we have multiple temporary capacity records available. I would like to see a radio button selection to make sure you select the correct temporary record that you want to use.
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Under review

    Extend HMC DPM capabilities to also be available in classic (PR\SM) mode

    Enhancement Request: The HMC provides extensive information about the CPC environment; however, many core metrics are currently only accessible when the CPC is operating in DPM mode. This limitation restricts users running in PR/SM mode from acces...
    5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 3 Under review

    Would like to see that messages in the console events log state why a mirror of the SE was done. Example mirror completed due to scheduled event, or mirror completed due to configuration change.

    Customer would get a better idea on why this was completed. With our case TS020780719 we had a number of mirroring events happening and it wasn't stating what was causing the event. We actually had a this happening in this case. A lot of time hard...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Under review

    Confirmation Screen Before Performing An SE Switch

    Would it be possible to have a confirmation screen before an SE Switch is performed? Currently you just select the option and then click ok and it goes off and performs the SE Switch. After clicking ok, could there be a confirmation screen present...
    2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Under review

    Increase SMT Simultaneous multithreading greater than 2

    Since several month, we have lot of Rest Api calling DB2 from DDF gateway and DB2 API rest use is increasing. These Api Rest are very short and execute on ZIIP. Many years ago, when we activate SMT to 2, we noticed a real benefits for DB2 running ...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Under review

    MCL Accept Remains Available Even After Being Actioned on SE but not on HMC

    After performing an Accept for currently installed MCLs, via a HMC, the option is then greyed out on the panel which indicates that there are no further mcls to accept. However, if you do the same Accept on a processor the option remains available...
    5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Under review

    PASS_MAX_DAYS setting

    Hi, The typical default for password expiration on Ubuntu in /etc/login.defs is "PASS_MAX_DAYS 99999" which means effectively it's not enabled, unless you choose to modify the setting. However, on the image " Ubuntu Linux 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Min...
    8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Under review

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